Counterterrorism
Turkey Freezes Assets of 770 People, US-Based Foundation Citing Terror Links
Turkey has frozen the assets of 770 people and a nonprofit organization, citing alleged links to terrorism, according to a ruling published to the country's official gazette on Friday. Reuters reported that more than 400 of those individuals and the Niagara Foundation, which is…
NSW Joint Counter Terrorism Team Arrest Sutherland Man Over Alleged Islamic State Material
A Sydney man who police allege was preparing to commit a terrorist act will front court on Christmas Day. Police arrested a 34-year-old man on Friday morning in Caringbah. NSW Police Detective Superintendent Michael Sheehy said he will be charged with offences…
Current Violent Extremism Hotspots Outlined in New Report
Lack of community cohesion, information sharing, poverty and attachment to a place increase the risk of violent extremism, a report has shown. According to a 2021 report by Reinvent-Kenya, parts of Rift Valley, Western and Marsabit have emerged as new violent…
Military & Defense
A Covid Cluster at a U.S. Military Base in Okinawa Is Raising Concern
Japan has been on a roll—in a good way—since it’s recovered from a summer surge of Covid-19 driven by the delta variant. There are fewer than 100 cases on some days now, after topping 25,000 daily infections this past summer. The government raised its view of…
Panel: West Must be Prepared to Send More Military Aid to Ukraine to Deter Russia
The West must be ready to send air defense systems and anti-ship missiles to Kyiv while preparing to slap harsher sanctions on Moscow to deter the Kremlin’s bullying of Ukraine, five experts in European security said this week. Alexander Vershbow, a former NATO deputy…
With the Dec. 15, 2021, Senate passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), expected to be signed into law by President Biden, the Department of Defense will be back into UFO investigations in a public way. MUFON executive director David P. MacDonald…
Cybersecurity
Unique Cyber-Attacks Fall for First Time Since 2018
Unique cyber-attacks declined for the first time in nearly three years in Q3 2021, according to new data from Positive Technologies. The researchers observed a 4.8% decline in unique attacks in Q3 compared to the previous quarter, the first time they have recorded a reduction…
Personal and Salary Data for 637,138 Albanian Citizens Leaks Online
The Albanian government has confirmed and apologized on Thursday for a data leak that exposed the personal and salary-related information for 637,138 citizens, more than 22% of the country’s entire population. Details such as names, ID card numbers, salaries, job…
Capital One Agrees to Pay $190M To Settle Hacking Lawsuit
Personal information from the bank's customers were stolen in July 2019 from its cloud servers, and federal prosecutors later arrested Paige A. Thompson, a former Amazon Web Services employee. Amazon Web Services, the cloud provider for Capital One, and the bank…
Counterintelligence & Espionage
Intelligence Inputs Reveal Pak-Backed Khalistani Terrorists Behind Ludhiana Court Blast
Intelligence agencies have got strong inputs regarding the involvement of a Khalistan-supported group backed by Pakistan’s ISI in the planning and execution of the Ludhiana court blast. A senior officer said that after the Red Fort incident, intelligence agencies were on…
Chinese Espionage Operations in US at Their Highest Level: US Intelligence
At the beginning of November this year, the United States extradited a high level Chinese spy to the US from Europe. The Chinese official in question is Yanjun Xu, a Deputy Director in China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), mainly responsible for external intelligence…
Declassified JFK Documents Reveal Lee Harvey Oswald Talked to KGB
Get out your evidence boards and string, conspiracy fans. The Biden administration has declassified nearly 1,500 documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Perhaps the biggest revelation is that a few weeks before he shot JFK in November…
Transnational Organized Crime
With 52,000 Unidentified Bodies, Government Admits Forensic Crisis
The federal government has acknowledged that Mexico is facing a “forensic crisis,” with an estimated 52,000 unidentified bodies in common graves and the nation’s morgues. Speaking at President López Obrador’s morning press conference on Thursday, Deputy Interior Minister…
CBP: 34 Arrested in Series of Smuggling Attempts
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents made 34 arrests over the course of three smuggling events. On Wednesday, Dec. 20, Weslaco agents received information that a residence was being used to harbor migrants. In collaboration with Weslaco PD, officers…
The Security Service Prevents Illegal Export of Osmium from Ukraine
This was reported by the SBU press center. Special services in the Kherson region found that two Ukrainians tried to smuggle osmium to one of the neighboring countries. Law enforcers exposed the offenders during a customs inspection at the Kuchurhan-Pervomaisk…
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